Thursday, December 7, 2017

How to stop fearing black box AI and love the robot-ruled future


A winding thread throughout the entire “AI is going to rise up and destroy all humans” narrative is the terrifying concept of deep learning occurring in a black box. How do you provide oversight for a system you can’t understand? Just like any other tool, however, it’s not whether black box AI represents a danger or not, it’s how we choose to use it. The headlines declare this kind of AI untrustworthy, and tell us that experts seek to end its use in government. But what is black box AI? When all we know about a computer system is its…

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